-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 alan c wrote: > John Botscharow wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> >> >> - -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Meeting Preparation - learning from the past >> Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:54:26 -0500 >> From: John Botscharow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: alan c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> alan c wrote: >>> John Botscharow wrote: >>> [...] >>>> I need to clarify my earlier statement about a foru, I did not mean it >>>> as a REPLACEMENT for the list, but rather as a SUPPLEMENTARY form of >>>> communication. Your comments about a forum being erb-based and "static >>>> which I think you meant as "criticisms" are what I consider the >>>> strenfths of a forum. >>>> >>>> A forum allows for more flexibility in changing the topic heading than a >>>> mailing list. Most people do not take the time to change the subject in >>>> a reply that is off-topic from the original subject and I do not know if >>>> it can be done after the fact in a list archive, but I do know that it >>>> can be done on a forum. That would make searching the archives much >>>> easier, as well as better linking of posts on the same subject. >>>> >>>> Both forums and mailing lists are only as good as the people using them. >>>> And how good people are is dependent on what they are comfortable with. >>>> Your confort zone is mailing lists; mine is forums - mainly because I do >>>> not have a mailing list on my site, but I do have a forum. And some >>>> forums allow for email posting :-) >>> I use a number of mailing lists, and almost no forums, this is from choice. >>> I find forums quite inconvenient to fit into my life and mostly >>> inconvenient to use. If they are well managed like the ubuntu forums, >>> they have an advantage of searches with captured data as a resource. >>> However, I cannot recall any message in a list such as our marketing >>> list here, that I have ever wanted to recall as a resource. >>> >>> I can predict that I would not make use of forums for a list such as >>> this, except perhaps occasionally when I happened to be seeking a very >>> specific information on (say) ubuntu forums. >>> >>> I have found that few forums integrate email use. >> [meant to be read with a sense of hunor] >> >> Is this distate for forums a cultural thing? Euorpean vs American? >> Or is it because you guys have been Linux users for so long that you >> never really experienced all the "fun" things that come with email on >> Microsoft machines? Spam! Viruses! Trojams! >> >> Anyway, hope you all got at least a little chuckle out of that. I got >> the message. I'll table my suggestion of a forum, or now at least. :-) > > I do not have a distaste for forums, I just do not find them > convenient, and I only use them on rare occasions. I involve myself in > a few dozen lists and can only be active in that number in such an > approach if I can have immediate access to all of them without the > added need to enter each forum and then orientate my self. > > I am also a user of threaded display of messages and my chosen email > client can be configured to my convenience, while I find most forums > cannot.
I guess I still cannot do humor LOL Maybe that's one new trick this old dog can't learn. LOL I concede, Alan. No forum - -- Peace! John -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD4DBQFISkbZ3oYFui6B2koRAqbiAJj2ambB1Zb1nIovRxTVY3kGYB00AJ0Tcn9i Mwh82sXA8ormixn0JU0rYg== =E0ZO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
